LaTeX Companion, The

Frank Mittelbach is manager of the LaTeX3 Project, in which capacity he oversaw the release of LaTeX 2e. He is the editor of a series of publications on tools and techniques for computer typesetting.Michel Goossens is past president of the TeX Users Group. A research physicist at CERN, where the Web paradigm was born, he is responsible for LaTeX, HTML, SGML, and, more recently, XML support for scientific documents. 0201362996AB11202003

• List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. 1. Introduction. A brief history. Today's system. Working with this book. 2. The Structure of a LATEX Document. The structure of a source file. Sectioning commands. Table of contents structures. Managing references. 3. Basic Formatting Tools. Phrases and paragraphs. Footnotes, endnotes, and marginals. List structures. Simulating typed text. Lines and columns. 4. The Layout of the Page. Geometrical dimensions of the layout. Changing the layout. Dynamic page data: page numbers and marks. Page styles. Visual formatting. Doing layout with class. 5. Tabular Material. Standard LaTEX environments. array--Extending the tabular environments. Calculating column widths. Multipage tabular material. Color in tables. Customizing table rules and spacing. Further extensions. Footnotes in tabular material. Applications. 6. Mastering Floats. Understanding float parameters. Float placement control. Extensions to LaTEX's float concept. Inline floats. Controlling the float caption. 7. Fonts and Encodings. Introduction. Understanding font characteristics. Using fonts in text. Using fonts in math. Standard LaTEX font support. PSNFSS--PostScript fonts with LaTEX. Acollection of font packages. The LaTEX world of symbols. The low-level interface. Setting up new fonts. LaTEX's encoding models. Compatibility packages for very old documents. 8. Higher Mathematics. Introduction to AMS-LaTEX. Display and alignment structures for equations. Matrix-like environments. Compound structures and decorations. Variable symbol commands. Words in mathematics. Fine-tuning the mathematical layout. Fonts in formulas. Symbols in formulas. 9. LATEX in a Multilingual Environment. TEX and non-English languages. The babel user interface. User commands provided by language options. Support for non-Latin alphabets. Tailoring babel. Other approaches. 10. Graphics Generation and Manipulation. Producing portable graphics and ornaments. LaTEX's device-dependent graphics support. Manipulating graphical objects in LaTEX. Display languages: PostScript, PDF, and SVG. 11. Index Generation. Syntax of the index entries. makeindex--A program to format and sort indexes. xindy--An alternative to MakeIndex. Enhancing the index with LaTEX features. 12. Managing Citations. Introduction. The number-only system. The author-date system. The author-number system. The short-title system. Multiple bibliographies in one document. 13. Bibliography Generation. The BIBTEX program and some variants. The BIBTEX database format. On-line bibliographies. Bibliography database management tools. Formatting the bibliography with BIBTEX styles. The BIBTEX style language. 14. LATEX Package Documentation Tools. doc--Documenting LaTEX and other code. docstrip.tex--Producing ready-to-run code. ltxdoc--A simple LaTEX documentation class. Making use of version control tools. A. A LATEX Overview for Preamble, Package, and Class Writers. Linking markup and formatting. Page markup--Boxes and rules. Control structure extensions. Package and class file structure. B. Tracing and Resolving Problems. Error messages. Warnings and informational messages. TEX and LaTEX commands for tracing. trace--Selectively tracing command execution. C. LATEX Software and User Group Information. Getting help. How to get those TEX files?. Using CTAN. Finding the documentation on your TEX system. TEX user groups. D. TLC2 TEX CD. Bibliography. Index of Commands and Concepts. People. Biographies. Production Notes.